Thread: [SSI-users] amd64 port
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From: Peter B. <unc...@gm...> - 2011-05-24 18:32:29
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To John Hughes or Whom It May Concern: Our research group is interested in setting up an OpenSSI cluster which would use several 48-core Dell R815 machines at first, and possibly be extended to include up to five 12-core Dell PowerEdge 2970 servers, all based on Debian Lenny (we currently have Debian version 5.0.5 installed, and may upgrade to 5.0.8). We'd like to run the whole system off of amd64 binaries, since we'll be utilizing large amounts of processors, memory, and disk space -- well in excess of the standard limits on a generic 32-bit installation. However, we were somewhat concerned by indications from previous messages, such as: http://deb.openssi.org/openssi/dists/1.9.6-lenny-preview/ http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.cluster.ssic.user/4825/ indicating that the 64-bit version is untested and buggy. When I looked at the bug tracker on sourceforge, I couldn't see any open bug reports that appeared specific to 64-bit architectures. So my question is, are there any current known bugs specific to the 64-bit architecture? If so, what are they, and what can we do to solve them? Thank you very much! Sincerely, Peter |